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Newspaper
Gloucester Advocate
Location
Gloucester, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Feb 09, 1934
Page
3
Monster bargains feature LADIES' PLAIN HAIRCORD FROCKS in Lemon and Green plus FLORAL POPLIN and VOILE FROCKS with pleated skirts and puff sleeves. Also LADIES' GLAZED LACE PANAMA HATS and Panamas in multiple shades, plus extra heavy BLOOMERS, HOSE, T-S and table linens. Includes children's and men's items with range of sizes and prices.
Commercial Sydney reports 2635 cattle yarded, 1560 more than yesterday, with middling quality. Prime heavy cattle scarce though dairy stock ample. Weaners and yearlings sold 24s6d to 36s per 100lb, light beef 27s to 28s, medium 25s, heavy 22s, best cow beef 24s. Monday Homebush sale saw 1075 cattle yarded, smallest in a while, with prices 20s to 30s above last Thursday. Prime light steers about 32s 6d, prime beef 28s medium, 25s heavy, 26s cow beef per 100lb. Prime pigs firm. 1200 head. Pig prices steady, backfatters to 115s per head, bacons 40s to 44s, 101b to 120lb 7- to 48/-, 120lb to 140lb 48/- to 88/. porkers 16/- to 25/-, 50lb to TOT 25/- to 81/. 50lb to TOT 25/- to 81/. Rabbit skins dearer. demand keen with values rising.
Reports show fish sale prices in Sydney rising 2d to 3d per lb with various lots selling high. Newcastle Herald notes Copeland relief workers seeking government investigation, while a column laments dwindling NSW fish stocks and warns of ecological balance disruption. A 2000-mile Bolivar road links La Guaira to Guayaquil via Caracas Bogota Quito.
Gloucester District names 11 players to face Dungog District on Wednesday at 10 am led by Jack Smith and Keith Merchant. Endeavours Ists prepare for Stratford on Saturday with eight named including F Easton and J Matthewson. Blues list includes A Blanch and Reg Giddey. Endeavour 2nds travel to Barrington with H Hazelwood and R Smith among others.
A lone totalisator bet on Spear Belle in the third division of the Flying Welter Handicap paid £100 18s 6d for 5s after 400 to 1 odds. The elderly winner Mr A Ryle received the dividend in the office as crowds cheered. The record payout surpasses Sydney course records, far above typical £20 dividends. A parliamentary note follows on a city radio issue and a German church tax stat.
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